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Jake Nickell Interview
Here’s what I like about the interviews I’ve been doing over the past few weeks; I’m asking people I find interesting questions I want to hear the answers to. I guess it’s a little self-indulgent, but I think it works and hopefully you guys are enjoying the interviews as much as I am. In the [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Are Web Directories still important?
21. April 2010
I just watched this video about web directories and thought it was very informative. Directories are what people used before search engines. Yahoo use to just be a web directory, you submitted links to it and if they got accepted they would show up in their search. Today directories hold a lot less value then [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Is free shipping a good idea?
20. April 2010
I had this discussion with my buddy David over at SEIBEI. I was thinking about raising my prices to include shipping, mostly so when retailers looked at my site they wouldn’t see that we are selling shirts for $20 and that we charge them more then 50% of the cost for wholesale. Here is what [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Threadless: The Do-First Work Ethic
14. April 2010
Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell, co-founders of Threadless, talk about how they transformed a fun side project into a multimillion dollar company.
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Craft Show Tip: Peacocking
27. March 2010
I just signed up for Renegade LA and SF today and was thinking about writing some articles about craft shows. If you haven’t heard about Renegade, check them out. They have a couple around the US and they usually have a good crowd. My tip today is about peacocking. You might have heard of the [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Working with artists (from the artists perspective)
16. March 2010
This article was on the suffoca blog and I thought it offered good insight into how a designer thinks. Working with clients is another side to my work, here’s a few handy tips i’v learnt along the way. I don’t tend to work any of the suffoca characters or style and take slightly more realistic [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Stop trying to do it all and delegate
11. March 2010
When I started mediocore about 2 years ago I wanted to do everything. I wanted to design the shirts and website, screen print everything, and do all the marketing myself. This is how a lot of self employed people think when they start a business. They don’t trust others and they want to do it [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...We are on Facebook!
26. February 2010
I just signed up for a page at Facebook. I know I am behind the times but at least I am starting now. I think it will be a good way for store owners to connect with each other. You can post in the discussions section, upload photos of your products, or just post a [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Sometimes you don’t need Internet Marketing
16. February 2010
I am fortunate enough to help a lot of clothing companies create awesome sites with my company Double Dragon Studios. While I am in there putting in all the code I also get a chance to look at all their web statistics. The one thing that surprised me the most was how little internet marketing [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...New Comment System + Feedback System
4. February 2010
I decided to use Disqus which is a comment replacement system for WordPress and other blogging platforms. In addition to all basic functionality, it is also well integrated with Facebook Connect and Twitter. I want to make this more of a community and promote sharing of all the information posted on this site. Please post [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...how to set up artwork for screen printing
14. December 2009
Ray from Lowdtown wrote another good article about setting up your artwork for screen printing. I put in two comments below. What I’m real confused about is the printing method. I’m just about to have a real small launch and I don’t do ANY designs. I’ve hired an artist to do my designs, but if [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...How many shirts should I print?!
13. December 2009
This question comes up a lot and I think it really needs an article about it. I remember printing my first shirt, live every week like it’s shark week, and I was asking the same question. I asked people what sizes I should order and I also unwisely asked what size people wanted to buy. [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Fail Fast, it’s the quickest way to succeed
6. December 2009
I’m sure most of you are scratching your heads like I did the first time I heard about this concept but after reading this article by business week it should make more sense. Fail Fast, Fail Cheap Get your idea into the marketplace, and learn from customers by Doug Hall The development of a successful [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Glamour Kills Interview
27. October 2009
I was very pleased to be able to interview the seriously cool and visionary dude behind Glamour Kills, Mark Capicotto. He has done amazing things with his brand and the success he is now enjoying should ignite the spirit and desire in all fledgling tshirt designers and fashion entrepreneurs! It can be achieved! Glamour Kills have just put out their summer line and it is immense! So enjoy the interview below and have a look at just a very select cross-s3ection of the new threads available!
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Ask top store owners questions about anything!
5. October 2009
Hey guys so I’ve been talking with a few friends about doing interviews and I thought it would be cool to throw it to you see what questions you want to ask. You can ask specific questions to a certain store owner or throw it up to everyone. I thought it would be really cool to hear the different perspectives from everyone.
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Bullshit Detector – for websites
25. September 2009
So I've run into a lot of people talking the talk, gloating about how well their company is doing, or trying to get me involved with their project. If I don't know you I will be skeptical and look at a few things that will let me know if you are full of shit : )
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...
- Don't start a clothing company
- Print to order sites don't work
- Costs Of Starting A Clothing Brand (Revisited)
- Getting your line into boutiques/ shops
- Stop trying to do it all and delegate
- Characteristics of Successful Clothing Company Owners
- Shirt Hive - Connecting t-shirt brands with designers
- You're self employed with your business, now what?
- Stop emailing me!
- Storenvy Review: Storenvy falls short of its promises
- Kkwin65a: hello, people said i have telant in making my own ...
- : You should sell no less than five dissimilar items...
- Guest: Add some more collection like footwear and handb...
- D8byr: hello i am a london based clothing company that is...
- Owen Osinde: word bro, i agree completely!...
27. April 2010
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